Felony Disenfranchisement: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- Published on: 9/9/2018
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- Last Week Tonight Felony Disenfranchisement John Oliver
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Is it not weird to anybody else that a Governor is responsible for deciding who can and cannot vote, especially when that decision is based on his own personal opinion.
Good news everybody, Florida passed the amendment and 1.4 million felons can now vote again!
The amendment just got passed
This story has a happy ending! It passed! 64% Way to go Florida!
“you go to church?”
👏SEPARATION 👏OF 👏CHURCH 👏AND 👏STATE
"Uh so why won't you allow me to vote even though I'm doing everything right?" "lol i just dun feel like it" the epitome of apathy and selfishness in American politics
I find it braindead that to legally gain your voting rights back you have to appear before a board that does not work with the legal system.
German prisons actively encourage and enable people to vote (only way to get disenfranchised is treason and electoral fraud, apparently, and those sanctions are always time-limited). In my opinion, that's the right way to go about it. Voting gives people a stake in the society they live in. It makes them consider the kind of country they want to see. And being at the mercy of the state to a particularly high degree makes it even more important for those imprisoned to be able to vote.
WE DID IT! FLORIDA DID IT! 1.4 MILLION PEOPLE IN FLORIDA CAN VOTE AGAIN! GREAT JOB, EVERYONE!
I bet all those Florida stories happened in two days
This panel sounds super illegal to me.
Just because some is a convicted felon doesn't necessarily make them a criminal. My dad refused the draft for Vietnam as a conscientious objector and had to go to prison. So now he is a convicted felon and can't vote even if he wanted to. Human governments are inept, cruel, and untrustworthy.
I wonder what color skin gets the most restoration of civil rights.
A friend of mine at work told me he couldn't vote cus he went to prison. I didn't know that was something that could be taken away because it would say that he is a second class citizen. Someone once said, in the comments of a previous episode, that America likes to talk about second chances but doesn't actually believe in them. And I can't help but see this as true.
A party that truly believes in democracy would never try to make it more and more difficult for citizens to participate in the political process of electing public officials or passing a law/amendment/referendum.
"Do you go to church?" Seriously? If that's illegal to ask that at a job interview, it should be just as illegal in that situation.
When you allow a government to take away someones "right", neither you nor them will have "rights", as you have allowed your government to change the legal definition of a "right" to a "privilege".
"Do you go to church?" No, I have morals.
Taxation without representation...didn't people fight another country to get rights?
Every time I think politics in Greece are a mess, I look at America and realize that it's easy to feel like we're doing democracy right when America sets the bar so goddamn low.